The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-27
SHE HELD THE FORT.
The Grit Displayed by Mrs. Hulda Moore
Defying the Officcrs.


Defying the Officers.
DANIELsvILLE, Ga. December 19.-ISpecal.]
Mrs. Hulda Moore has outwitted the officers at
last and is now hid out among friends.
At last September term Of our superior
court, Judgment was obtained against Mr..
John Moore, husband of the famous Mrs. HUI
da Moore, for attorneys fee. A motion for
new trial was defeated but served to postpone
collection till the January sale. Sheriff Scar
borough proceeded to levy, but Iesisted in the
face of Mrs. Moore's fair promises, and on
Monday Mrs Moore came up ostensibly to- settle
bringing certificates of depositfrom the nation
al band of Athens. She requested Mr.. Strick-
land, plaintiff in the Fl. ia. to write a receipt
in full, whce he did She then requested to
see both receipt and fl. ia. After scrutenizing
them she placed them in her pocket and de-
parted The sheriff took out possessory war
ront and followed. Fair promise again pre-
vailed. Failing to meet her engagement again
the sheriff went TO arrest Mrs. Moore, but
found her armed and defiant, threatening muir
der if he attempted TO enter the house. The
sheriff returned without prisoner.
ON Saturday the sheriff, Deputy Sheriff
Henry McEwen and Messrs. Hugh Hardcman,
Lloyd Brooks and James S. McCuTdy went
down to arrest under Il possessory warrant.
On arriving Jim McCurdy went into the kitch-
en-, where Mrs. Moore and her cook were, to
see il he could not perform the mission peace
ably and without force. The woman was fu-
rious and kept the tables between her and
McCurdy, lcyelling her cooked pistol, with fin
ger on the trigger, ut him frequently. There
was no bluff in Jim, and when he saw there
was no other chance but to take
her by force he stenped out and gave
the posse the alarm. whereupon
Mrs. Moore jumped out and ran
through the orchard. As the men pursued her
She drew two pistols, British bulldog, 49,
caliber, center-fire, double-acting, and Mar
quis Of LOrnc, 32-caliber, and with one in
each hand, leveled them at Scarborough,
Brooks and McCurdy. Brooks and McCurdy
rushed toward her from different directions
and captured her, she firing the bulldog
through Brooks's hand, doing but little dam
age save burning it. Upon tho others rushing
up, and in the scuflie, she drew the other pistol
ON Deputy Sheriff Wash White and snapped,
but it failed to fire. Thereby he was saved from
death. When brought to town she refused to
so into any house, or to the ire anywhere, and
men crowded about her as she Stubbornly
stood and walked back and forth bareheaded
ON the square, with the cold wind whistling
about her.
Finally she 'gaq seized by two strong men,
and carried TO the fire in Brooks & Williams
store. While by the fire, she spied Ratchet
on the mantel and waitedsuntil Jim McCurdy
turned his eyes of, when she sprang for the
Ratchet. Mr.. Ben Russell who saw her OBJ
iect, snatched the Ratchet in time to save Me
Curdy from death. Upon the arrival of Mr..
j. L. Sanders, j. p. she objected to his try
ing the case. Mr.. j. N. Boggs was sent for.
when she struck that court also; her game of
bluff was no good, and she was committed to
Jail, till She should turn over the papers to the
aresting officer, or have them forthcoming to
be dealt with as the law directs.
She said she would die before she would
give up the papers.
She was carried to tie house'of DR.. Sorrell,
swaiting the return of her son, whowent home
to get the papers. Her husband, away in the
night, brought the papers, but she forbade him
giving them TO the arresting party, and babe
him hand them to hor She put them in her
pocket and said she would die before she would
give them up. She got Sick went into another
room at DR.. SOrrell'S and went to bed, and
While some guards went away and some slept
and some didn't guard very closely, she made
q leap for liberty jumping from window in
the sleeping room about daybreak, and was
tracked across some plowed ground, where she
ran bareiOoted. Another posse went for her
yesterday afternoon, but she was not to be
found. She is still at large, and holds the
papers.